Sunday 8 September 10am – CANTOR

23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (C) Year of Luke

Wis 9:13-18; Phil 9-10, 12-17; Lk 14:25-33 Whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple

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  • Mass setting: Mass Shalom (C.D. Smith)
  • Offertory Motet: O Lord, whose mercies numberless* (from Saul, G.F. Handel)
  • Communio: (Gregorian, Ps 75) Vovete, et reddite Domino Deo vestro, omnes qui in circuiti eius affertis munera: terrabili, et ei qui aufert spiritum principum: terribili apud omnes reges terrae Make vows to the Lord your God, and accomplish them, all you who gather around Him to present offerings; to the awesome God who takes away the life of princes; he is greatly feared by all the kings of the earth
  • Hymns: TIS 583 Take up your cross O JESU CHRIST, MEINS LEBENS LICHT; TIS 485 My God accept my heart this day (tune 514 BELMONT)
  • Organ Prelude: Récit de Chromhorne (Mass for the Parishes) – François Couperin (1668-1733)
  • Organ Offertorium: Élévation – Joseph Bucciali (1859-1943)
  • Organ Voluntary: Chorale Prelude ‘Witaj Królowo’ – Feliks Nowowiejski (1877-1946

Organist: Bransby Byrne

Cantor: Nicole Smeulders

*O Lord whose mercies numberless,
O’er all thy works prevail:
Though daily man Thy law transgress,
Thy patience cannot fail.
If yet his sin be not too great,
The busy fiend control;
Yet longer for repentance wait,
And heal his wounded soul.